According to a report on the preliminary results from Bloomberg, the study has shaken economists' forecasts by suggesting the U.S. economy will have to decelerate much more over the next decade than most now expect. "The study projects what the authors call a 'conservative' 3 percentage-point decline over the next 10 years in the labor force participation rate--the percentage of people who are either working or looking for work." However, other economic forecasts predict much smaller drops in the participation rate.